United Nations

Come celebrate the United Nations International Day of Peace on the Boston Common (near the Park Street MBTA station) from 1 – 3 pm on Sunday 24th September. Consistent with the Day’s theme (Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for All), this year’s event features a culturally-diverse …

The United Nations finalized a landmark treaty earlier this month, moving to eliminate the disastrous threat nuclear weapons pose to the world. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, once ratified, declares that each State party “would never, under any circumstances, develop, test, produce, …

The Walpole Peace and Justice Group is holding a vigil to observe U.N. World Refugee Day. The vigil will be at the corner of Main and West Streets at the tip of the Walpole Common. World Refugee Day has been observed since 2000, when the …

Join One Struggle, Many Fronts forum on June 18th to stand united against nuclear arms, the arms race & the use of nuclear weapons. The tide is shifting: we stand with the Women’s March to Ban the Bomb which takes place on June 17th and the UN …

Nuclear weapons are about to be banned and we need your voice! In one of its final acts of 2016, the United Nations General Assembly adopted with overwhelming support a landmark resolution to begin negotiations on a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons. This historic decision heralds …

The Declaration was adopted on the morning of August 4, 2106 Seventy one years ago, the USA used nuclear bombs for the first time against humanity by releasing atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With tremendous destructive power and radiation, the two bombs burned out the …

This month marks two anniversaries that are incredibly significant to the anti-nukes movement: January 24th marks the 70th anniversary of the seventeenth plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, at which a resolution was adopted calling for the elimination of all weapons of mass …